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A fractal is in essence a hierarchy with cascade structure, which can be described with a set of exponential functions. From these exponential functions, a set of power laws indicative of scaling can be derived. Hierarchy structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-13 Yanguang Chen

An RNA sequence is a word over an alphabet on four elements $\{A,C,G,U\}$ called bases. RNA sequences fold into secondary structures where some bases match one another while others remain unpaired. Pseudoknot-free secondary structures can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Édouard Bonnet , Paweł Rzążewski , Florian Sikora

We consider the fragmentation process with mass loss and discuss self-similar properties of the arising structure both in time and space, focusing on dimensional analysis. This exhibits a spectrum of mass exponents $\theta$, whose exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. K. Hassan , J. Kurths

Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar , Matthew A. McDonald , Feng Liu

Many biological processes and objects can be described by fractals. The paper uses a new type of objects - blinking fractals - that are not covered by traditional theories considering dynamics of self-similarity processes. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

DNA based nanostructures built on a long single stranded DNA scaffold, known as DNA origamis, offer the possibility to organize various molecules at the nanometer scale in one pot experiments. The folding of the scaffold is guaranteed by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 Jean-Michel Arbona , Jean-Pierre Aimé , Juan Elezgaray

We consider the self-assembly of fractals in one of the most well-studied models of tile based self-assembling systems known as the Two-handed Tile Assembly Model (2HAM). In particular, we focus our attention on a class of fractals called…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jacob Hendricks , Joseph Opseth

Ab initio RNA secondary structure predictions have long dismissed helices interior to loops, so-called pseudoknots, despite their structural importance. Here, we report that many pseudoknots can be predicted through long time scales RNA…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Xayaphoummine , T. Bucher , F. Thalmann , H. Isambert

Fractal is an intriguing geometry with self-similarity and non-integer dimensions, the elastic-wave topological phase based on fractal structures has not been revealed up to now. In this work, elastic-wave higher-order topological states in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Tingfeng Ma , Bowei Wu , Jiachao Xu , Hui Chen , Shuanghuizhi Li , Boyue Su , Pengfei Kang , Ji Wang

A new continuous model of shearable rod, subject to large elastic deformation, is derived from nonlinear homogenization of a one-dimensional periodic microstructured chain. As particular cases, the governing equations reduce to the Euler…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-24 M. Paradiso , F. Dal Corso , D. Bigoni

DNA looping is important in DNA condensation and regulation. One method for forming a DNA loop, thought to be used by the condensing agent protamine, is bind-and-bend. In bind-and-bend, molecules bind all along the DNA, each creating a bend…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Michael Liaofan Liu , Daniel W. Oo , Ryan B. McMillan , Ashley R. Carter

Quantum computation is an attractive front for many problems that are intractable for computers today. One such problem is nonadiabatic quantum molecular dynamics, where quantized internal states coupling to parameterized modes result in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Joshua Courtney

We propose a new constructive model of the real continuum based on the notion of fractal definability. Rather than assuming the continuum as a completed uncountable totality, we view it as the cumulative result of a vast space of stratified…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Stanislav Semenov

Chromosomes in the nucleus assemble into hierarchies of 3D domains that, during interphase, share essential features with a knot-free condensed polymer known as the fractal globule (FG). The FG-like chromosome likely affects macromolecular…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yeonghoon Kim , Ludvig Lizana , Jae-Hyung Jeon

As nature is ascribed as quantum, the fractals also pose some intriguing appearance which is found in many micro and macro observable entities or phenomena. Fractals show self-similarity across sizes; structures that resemble the entire are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Hillol Biswas

RNA molecules are essential cellular machines performing a wide variety of functions for which a specific three-dimensional structure is required. Over the last several years, experimental determination of RNA structures through X-ray…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-11 Tristan Cragnolini , Philippe Derreumaux , Samuela Pasquali

The fractal dimensions of polymer chains and high-temperature graphs in the Ising model both in three dimension are determined using the conformal bootstrap applied for the continuation of the $O(N)$ models from $N=1$ (Ising model) to $N=0$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 Hirohiko Shimada , Shinobu Hikami

In this paper we present a selfcontained analysis and description of the novel {\it ab initio} folding algorithm {\sf cross}, which generates the minimum free energy (mfe), 3-noncrossing, $\sigma$-canonical RNA structure. Here an RNA…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-30 Fenix W. D. Huang , Wade W. J. Peng , Christian M. Reidys

We introduce "fractalization", a procedure by which spin models are extended to higher-dimensional "fractal" spin models. This allows us to interpret type-II fracton phases, fractal symmetry-protected topological phases, and more, in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Trithep Devakul , Dominic J. Williamson

The permutation associated with the decimal expression of the binary reflected Gray code with $N$ bits is considered. Its cycle structure is studied. Considered as a set of points, its self-similarity is pointed out. As a fractal, it is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Oteo , J. Ros